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HELP: Format an 80GB HDD in WinXP NTSF

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QTPie

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I just bought a Seagate Barracuda 80GB at Fry's for $150 (with $50 MIR)
I just installed it into my current PC - which has WinXP - without running any program. It's a bare drive.
WinXP recognized the drive and installed. But I didn't see new drive when I clicked on My Computer. I think it's OK because the HDD isn't formatted yet. My question is:

How do I format this HDD with WinXP NTSF?
or Is there any way that I use WinXP to format this HDD (I have the CD) ?

I remember someone says that WinXP NTSF is different from WinNT and 2K NTSF.
Check on Seagate site, their Disk Manager can only format either FAT or FAT32.
Thank you very much.



P.S. I paid $300 for a boxed Maxtor 40GB in 2000. And now I get double capacity for only half price.
Personally, I feel bad for my friends and those who lost their job at Seagate and Quantum (Maxtor now)
 
You can format your hd, from inside winxp. but first you have to disable the pagefile for the drive letter that new hard drive is on. After that, just go to disk management and format. 🙂
 
Grommet5 - Thank you very much

but I still have a question about the process when it asks me to convert it to dynamic disk. Should I not choose that?
 
There are some very minor changes between WinXP NTFS ver 5.1 and Win2K NTFS ver 5.0.

These changes should not be material to you.

You won't need to change your drive to a dynamic disk. The only reason is for servers. No other OS, except Win2K or WinXP can read a dynamic disk. If you do decide to change to a dynamic disk, the only way to change it back to a basic disk is to FDISK. Not even Partition Magic can help you.
 
It's ok. I didn't choose it. Now I'm formatting it in NTSF.
Thank you very much. I really appreciate your great help, you guys!

BTW, my 80GB HDD is only 74.53GB after formatted. What a rip off!
 
I paid $150 with $50MIR.
I didn't mean the price was a rip off, just the HDD space.
I got 74.53GB after formatted (lost 5.47GB) while my 40GB was 38.1GB after formatted (lost only 1.9GB)
 
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